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The end of the affair

China and Australia have filed for divorce

12 December 2020

9:00 AM

12 December 2020

9:00 AM

China’s wolf warrior diplomats keep warning us to ‘reflect on our deeds’ or learn how it feels to ‘walk into the dark’. Beijing’s hostility towards Australia has taken us by surprise and not just for the obvious economic reasons. We are, for the most part, a pragmatic people who long ago adopted a live-and-let-live attitude to the rest of the world, not least the People’s Republic of China.

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